Ghostbusters Star Casts Doubt on Legacy Actors Returning in Future Movies

The Ghostbusters franchise could also be shifting ahead, however one in all its unique stars says he and one other iconic character will possible not return to the large display. Per The New York Submit, Dan Aykroyd, who has portrayed Raymond Stantz within the Ghostbusters franchise because the unique 1984 film, mentioned he and fellow Ghostbuster Invoice Murray would most likely be sitting out any future movies.

“I don’t see that coming,” Aykroyd mentioned after being requested if he and Murray, who performed Peter Venkman within the movies, would return. “I don’t see the place they would wish us to hold it on. They’ve received a complete new solid, and so they’ve received complete new concepts.”

Dan Aykroyd Says the Franchise Will Transfer Ahead

Aykroyd, who wrote the script for the unique Ghostbusters with Harold Ramis added that he helps the brand new group behind the franchise. Jason Reitman, the son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, and Gil Kenan have respectively helmed the 2 newer Ghostbusters movies, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).

“I feel most likely they’re going to maneuver on to advancing it past the originals, which they need to,” Aykroyd mentioned. Aykroyd didn’t point out whether or not his co-star Ernie Hudson, who performed Winston Zeddemore, would return for any future Ghostbusters tasks.

Frozen Empire Director Says “There’ll Be Extra”

In October, Kenan, who directed and co-wrote Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,addressed what’s to come back for the franchise. “We undoubtedly are persevering with the dialog of telling huge Ghostbuster tales on the large display,” Kenan instructed The Direct.

He added that he and Reitman “take the accountability and the enjoyment of being the keepers of the flame of Ghostbusters very significantly…And keep tuned. There’ll be extra. There’ll be extra about that later,” he teased.

Aykroyd, Murray, and Hudson all had elements within the newest Ghostbusters motion pictures, which starred Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace. Set three years after Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the characters within the film transfer from the fictional city of Summerville, Oklahoma to New York Metropolis. Whereas there, they tackle a demonic spirit, Garraka, who desires to freeze the whole world.

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A New Animated Ghostbusters Collection is Forthcoming

Not solely will the live-action Ghostbusters keep it up, however a brand new animated sequence was lately greenlit by Netflix. Elliott Kalan (The Every day Present with Jon Stewart, Thriller Science Theater 3000) would be the showrunner for the yet-untitled animated sequence by Sony Footage Animation. Reitman and Kenan will government produce the animated sequence.

The brand new animated sequence just isn’t the primary cartoon within the franchise, as The Actual Ghostbusters, aired from 1986-1991. In 1997, the present was given a sequel that adopted the occasions of The Actual Ghostbusters that aired for one season on ABC. A launch date for the brand new Ghostbusters animated Netflix sequence has not been introduced. Nevertheless, it’s reported to be a 3D-animated sequence which might be totally different from the traditional 2D animated sequence of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

Supply: Ghostbusters Information, The New York Submit

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters facilities round a gaggle of eccentric New York Metropolis parapsychologists who examine, encounter, and seize ghosts, paranormal manifestations, demigods and demons.

Created by

Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis

Newest Movie

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

First TV Present

The Actual Ghostbusters

Forged

Invoice Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis , Ernie Hudson , Sigourney Weaver , FInn Wolfhard , Melissa McCarthy , Kristen Wiig , Kate McKinnon